GES Center Lectures, NC State University
125 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -The Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center at NC State University hosts a weekly speakers colloquium, plus periodic public lectures. Topics include agricultural biotechnology, synthetic biology (SynBio), DIYbio, gene editing, gene drives, governance & responsible innovation, public engagement, sci-art, and integrated pest management, to name a few. Learn more at go.ncsu.edu/ges and sign up for our newsletter at http://eepurl.com/c-PD_T.
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#1 – Natalie Kofler & Alex Pearlman - COVID-19 Immunity Passports and DIY Vaccines
August 12, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBGenetic Engineering and Society Center GES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM (via Zoom) NC State University | http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium GES Mediasite - See videos, full abstracts, speaker bios, and slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite Twitter - https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Despite limited scientific data, governments around the world are exploring COVID-19 immunity passport programs. At the same time, groups have emerged who have developed, promoted, and tested on themselves ...
#13 – Perspectives on the new USDA regulations for GM Crops
June 11, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Zoom Chat box with resource links: https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-usda-panel-chat-links SlideShare - Download Presentation Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/GESCenterNCSU GES faculty review how the new USDA rule changes regulation of GM crops in comparison to the agency's pr...
#12 – COVID-19’s Global Impact: Interdisciplinary perspectives from inside GES, looking out
April 22, 2020 17:06 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Final Colloquium of the semester! Join us for a discussion with an all-star cast of GES faculty, scholars and graduate students as they reflect upon COVID-19, our preparedness, response, and its impacts on our global community. Royden Saah discusses preparedness, respon...
S1E11 - Margo Bagley - “What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is Mine”: Digital Sequence Information, Patents, and Benefit-sharing Obligations
April 09, 2020 19:28 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Corporate and academic synthetic biology researchers are using sequence information from untold numbers of organisms to develop improvements in diverse product areas from agriculture to therapeutics. Quite often, such information is being used, and patented, without rega...
#11 – Margo Bagley - “What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is Mine”: Digital Sequence Information, Patents, and Benefit-sharing Obligations
April 09, 2020 19:28 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Corporate and academic synthetic biology researchers are using sequence information from untold numbers of organisms to develop improvements in diverse product areas from agriculture to therapeutics. Quite often, such information is being used, and patented, without rega...
S1E10 - Jean Goodwin - Scientists' Responsibilities in the Public Sphere
April 07, 2020 19:33 - 52 minutes - 71.7 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Any scientist doing public-facing work should occasionally be reflecting on what responsibilities they are willing to undertake--what roles they want to play. Using the familiar typology laid out by Roger Pielke, Jr., are they setting out to be pure scientists, science a...
#10 – Jean Goodwin - Scientists’ Responsibilities in the Public Sphere: the Case of COVID Mask Recommendations
April 07, 2020 19:33 - 52 minutes - 71.7 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Any scientist doing public-facing work should occasionally be reflecting on what responsibilities they are willing to undertake--what roles they want to play. Using the familiar typology laid out by Roger Pielke, Jr., are they setting out to be pure scientists, science a...
#9 – Jean Beagle Ristaino - Tackling the Global Challenges of Emerging Plant Diseases
March 31, 2020 16:54 - 1 hour - 55 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Emerging plant diseases threaten many foods crops including those we eat for breakfast such as coffee, oranges, banana and potatoes. Plant pathogens cause global losses estimated to be as high as $33 billion per year. The risk of introduction of pathogens into the US wit...
S1E9 - Jean Beagle Ristaino - Tackling the Global Challenges of Emerging Plant Diseases
March 31, 2020 16:54 - 1 hour - 55 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Emerging plant diseases threaten many foods crops including those we eat for breakfast such as coffee, oranges, banana and potatoes. Plant pathogens cause global losses estimated to be as high as $33 billion per year. The risk of introduction of pathogens into the US wit...
S1E8 - Carlos Iglesias - The future of protein production and its implications
March 24, 2020 19:48 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Demand for animal protein is projected to rise by 54% by 2050 (40% population increase, and 14% increase on per capita consumption). Given the current use of land and the pace of agriculture production, it will be extremely challenging to satisfy that demand with the tra...
#8 – Carlos Iglesias - The future of protein production and its implications
March 24, 2020 19:48 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Via Zoom, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Demand for animal protein is projected to rise by 54% by 2050 (40% population increase, and 14% increase on per capita consumption). Given the current use of land and the pace of agriculture production, it will be extremely challenging to satisfy that demand with the tra...
S1E7 - Jose Alonso - Implementing recombineering to study gene function in plants
March 03, 2020 19:09 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU In order to sprout, grow, photosynthesize, fight off pests, flower, or produce fruits, plants turn on different sets of genes in their genomes. To understand how these basic processes are brought about, scientists must first determine what individual plant genes do. To do...
#7 – Jose Alonso - Implementing recombineering to study gene function in plants
March 03, 2020 19:09 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU In order to sprout, grow, photosynthesize, fight off pests, flower, or produce fruits, plants turn on different sets of genes in their genomes. To understand how these basic processes are brought about, scientists must first determine what individual plant genes do. To do...
#6 – Darrell "SciPoet" Stover - Science Poetry: Case of the Two Rita's
February 25, 2020 20:55 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Expanding the general public's interest, understanding and acceptance of scientific knowledge is a perpetual challenge. The gap is considered bridgeable through multidisciplinary approaches. Arts and humanities is one such approach as evidenced by its combination with bio...
S1E6 - Darrell "SciPoet" Stover - Science Poetry: Case of the Two Rita's
February 25, 2020 20:55 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Expanding the general public's interest, understanding and acceptance of scientific knowledge is a perpetual challenge. The gap is considered bridgeable through multidisciplinary approaches. Arts and humanities is one such approach as evidenced by its combination with bio...
S1E5 - Elizabeth Bennett - Synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation
February 19, 2020 13:43 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Synthetic biology has many implications, both potentially positive and potentially negative, for biodiversity conservation. This includes both synthetic biology applications specifically intended to enhance biodiversity conservation, and those intended for other purposes ...
#5 – Elizabeth Bennett - Synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation
February 19, 2020 13:43 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Synthetic biology has many implications, both potentially positive and potentially negative, for biodiversity conservation. This includes both synthetic biology applications specifically intended to enhance biodiversity conservation, and those intended for other purposes ...
#4 – Steve Evans - Insights from Inside AgBiotech Industry
February 12, 2020 17:17 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU The Ag Biotechnology Landscape has changed markedly from the 1980’s. In certain ways, however, the calendar can be argued to have cycled back on itself. Back then lab scientists and entrepreneurs were wildly optimistic about deployment. Some early applications of rDNA tec...
S1E4 - Steve Evans - Insights from Inside AgBiotech Industry
February 12, 2020 17:17 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU The Ag Biotechnology Landscape has changed markedly from the 1980’s. In certain ways, however, the calendar can be argued to have cycled back on itself. Back then lab scientists and entrepreneurs were wildly optimistic about deployment. Some early applications of rDNA tec...
#3 – Phil Howard - Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry: Drivers and Impacts
February 04, 2020 20:47 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Much of the food we eat is derived from plants grown from seeds, or from animals that consume these types of plants. The seed industry has changed dramatically in recent decades, however, moving from one characterized by thousands of small and mostly family-owned business...
S1E3 - Phil Howard - Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry: Drivers and Impacts
February 04, 2020 20:47 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Much of the food we eat is derived from plants grown from seeds, or from animals that consume these types of plants. The seed industry has changed dramatically in recent decades, however, moving from one characterized by thousands of small and mostly family-owned business...
#2 – Career Panel in Risk Science
January 31, 2020 01:41 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Are you interested in pursuing a career in risk science? If so, tune in to hear from 5 panelists who represent a range of careers in various aspects of risk. Each of the panelists give a 5-minute lightning presentation on their backgrounds in risk science and areas of exp...
S1E2 - Career Panel in Risk Science
January 31, 2020 01:41 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBGES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202, NC State University GES Mediasite - Video w/slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite More info at http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium | Twitter -https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Are you interested in pursuing a career in risk science? If so, tune in to hear from 5 panelists who represent a range of careers in various aspects of risk. Each of the panelists give a 5-minute lightning presentation on their backgrounds in risk science and areas of exp...
S1E1 - Sir Charles Godfray - Can we feed the world without wrecking the environment?
January 15, 2020 18:52 - 1 hour - 117 MBLecture: Sir Charles Godfray - Can we feed the world without wrecking the environment? VIDEO: Watch on YouTube, or on Mediasite (allows toggling between video and slides) Monday, January 13, 7 - 8:30 pm, Hunt Library Auditorium Presented by the Genetic Engineering and Society Center in collaboration with the Genetics and Genomic Initiative at NC State and the Society for Risk Analysis. We can now imagine a future where humanity’s demands of the earth plateau or even decrease. But at that...
#1 – Sir Charles Godfray - Can we feed the world without wrecking the environment?
January 15, 2020 18:52 - 1 hour - 117 MBLecture: Sir Charles Godfray - Can we feed the world without wrecking the environment? VIDEO: Watch on YouTube, or on Mediasite (allows toggling between video and slides) Monday, January 13, 7 - 8:30 pm, Hunt Library Auditorium Presented by the Genetic Engineering and Society Center in collaboration with the Genetics and Genomic Initiative at NC State and the Society for Risk Analysis. We can now imagine a future where humanity’s demands of the earth plateau or even decrease. But at that...